Denver, Colorado

 I've spent a lot of time exploring Colorado, but I haven't really spent much time in Denver, especially downtown Denver. Today, I decided to do some exploring to change that. I took the light rail from Littleton-Mineral Station to Union Station and set off on foot. I had hoped to find a dynamic city with lots of energy like two cities I have recently visited: New York and Philadelphia. However, I found Denver to be a bit underwhelming. A report I recently read says that about 40% of Denver's downtown office space is currently vacant, which I am sure is part of the reason why it felt like there wasn't much going on down there. Anyway, here's what I saw:

Light rail at Union Station

An art installation outside Union Station

Union Station

Wazee Street

Larimer Square

relaxing on Larimer Square with a coffee

A sculpture at the Denver Center for Performing Arts

Denver Convention Center

The top of the Denver City and County Building

The Denver City and County Center

his guy asked me to take his photo, so I obliged

Colorado Capitol Building steps

The City and County Building from State Capitol

Colorado State Capitol Building

Fox Squirrel gathering mulch

Pioneer Mothers of Colorado Monument

One of many interesting murals

The new Larry Walker statue outside of Coor's Field

Shipping container art

Rhino sculpture in RiNo

interesting van

RiNo mural

another RiNo mural

Popeye

Swan mural

egret in the South Platte River

owl mural

My favorite part of the city that I explored was Five Points where I grabbed lunch at Shake Shack and got a couple beers at Our Mutual Friend. Otherwise, I wasn't too impressed.